The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

structed at Paris foundry. Its builder pre-
| diets that il viii realize approximate speed
of 93 miles an hour. trial trip is TO be made
\ in the near future.
PROBABLY $250, 900 has been sunk in the sink
| ing of gas wells in Kentucky, yet not foot OF
natural gas is being utilized in the state save at
/ the Brandenburg Salt Works. where 1t has been
! doing good service for twenty-five years.
| In LONDON during the seventeenth century.
when the population was only 100000, the
mortality rate amounted to ~ to every 1000.
while now, with population of nearly 5,OOO,0O0
the mortality only amounts TO u Tor every l,OOO'
THR Baroness Burdett- Coutts and other phil
| anthropic persons in London are about 70 estab-
| lish, it is said, scheme to provide workshops
| furnished with sewing machines where poor
! seamstresSes can go and have the use OF the
| machine at very low charge.
a SINGULAR ACCIDENT occurred recently in one
of the silver mines at Freburg, Germany,
| While two miners were engaged in boring, they
struck subterranean basin OF water, from
| which a jet was thrown up IN such abundance
| and such force that both men could not escape
| quick enough, and were drowned.
A DR.. BARNADo in Edinburg is devoting him
self TO the work of securing homes in Canada
for destitute boys and girls in his own country:
He has already started town on tract OF 4, 100
acres OF land in Manitoba. which he calls VIC
| toria Regina, and will populate it with young
| eInlgrants. IL is to be run on the system OF an
industrial farm.
A MAN living near York Pa. started TO move
| the other day, and loaded all his household
effects upon wagon. He had not proceeded
far with the load before it caught fire and turni-
| ture bedding aud wagon were totally destroyed
| in the middle of the road. The fire is supposed
| to have caught from pipe which one OF the
| men on the wagon was smoking.
WHILE bogus dynamite bombs and cartridges
have been quite the fashion lately, two genuine
articles came to light early in the week. one in
| Mount Pleasant, Pa. and the other in Toledo,
| O. The latter had been placed in front OF the
| residence of General Manager Ferris, of the
Toledo and Ohio Central railroad. and when dis
covered was lighted and ready to explode.
| A PHILADELPHIA GROCER who had three hams
stolen from his store wrote and pasted up a
paper which read as follows: II know who stole
the three hams from in front of my store. They
are worthless to any one but myself. II re-
| turned in twenty-four hours no arrest" When
his clerk opened the store the next morning the
hams hung outside. They were made OF saw
dust and were only for show.
SOUTHERN JAPAN possesses Bishop, 81
European missioners, so catechists. - Nuns of
the Holy Child Jesus, and IA Sisters of St. Paul
| of Chartres The mission comprises IS dis
tricts, 81 Christian settlements Al churches or
chapels, seminary with u pupils, 10 schools
| with COS pupils, ORDINANCES, girls schools
| and pharmacies; 1861 baptismS, of which $50
are adults, have been administered during
| 1885.
AN old woman who has just died at San An
tonia Zacatecas, Is said to have had quite ro-
mantle history 1t is said that formerly she
| pursued the unlawful avocation of highway
| robber. She used TO mount on horseback and
| stop the stage, pistol in hand, and several times
succeeded in robbng the passengers. She al
ways eluded justice, but lately, when railroads
| were built in the State, she abandoned her I'M
| Wf calling a
JACK McCLoY, tAe noted Niagara Falls guide,
accomplished another of his daring feats last
week by removing an advertising sign on one
of the small islands above the falls, which the
Reservation Commission has long wished re-
moved. McCloy crept through the water that
was rushing along at twenty-five mile rate
| with the aid of spike and rope to the island.
It is stated that Jack will be presented with a
medal for saving the lives of several persons by
| the government
ONE of the pecuarities of the natives of South
Africa is their aversion to the use of water for
external purpose during dry weather especially
when they are in perspiration- They avoid
\ bathing except during heavy rains, when they
| take advantage of the opportunity for purposes
of bodily cleanliness. Their reasons for so doing
are that frequent ablutions deblitate the system
and render it incapable of withstanding the local
climate and that very frequently baths are fol-
| lowed by malarial fever or cutaneous eruptions
over the joints =
Col FEB WARD, of Little Rock, Ark, who has
| been Warden of three State Penitentiaries, de-
clares that he was the last man to pay for a
negro slave in this country, and that was the re-
suit of suit brought against him few years
ago by a woman slave whom he wished to set
free but who remained with him during a long
| dispute in the courts regarding her ownership.
She sued for remuneration for six years SER
vice after the emancipation act and gained a
| verdict Colonel Ward says that in making out
the draft for the amount found he worded it,:
ITO pay for the last negro that will ever be paid
for in this country"
THERE is an exhibition of sewing machines
at the Royal Aquarium, London, where En-
glish, American and German sewing machines
are being shown. 1t is the first exhibition of the
kind but will be repeated, it is said, in Boston,
Mass, and subsequently in Paris. There are
sixty nine patents shown, and they include
many novelties. specimen of the first sewing
machine ever made, reproduced from the orig
inal specifications of Thomas Saint, of London,
an inventor of the last century, is there, and
| with it are exhibited modern machines sewing
| at the rate of 1000 stitches minute. The low
st-priced one is 81 81 and the highest $3.50.
WHEN l. C. Libby was IS years old he lived on
his fathers farm near Troy, Me-, and was sick
and lame. One day a sheep buyer bought
lambs of his father at SO apiece The boy
thought that if the buyer could make money at
that he could do better, for he could buy lambs
for So So So he borrowed 500 of his father
and limped off on foot buying lambs In five
months he cleared $500 and laid the foundation
| of the big cattle business that has given him
the title of the Maine Cattle King" His four
sons are learning the same business but they
have better start than their father had. The
other day he handed his youngest son, aged a.
$1,000 and sent him to buy stock.
The United States is the largest consuming
| country of raisns in the world and reliable
! authorities estimate the consumption at about
2,000,0O0 boxes of about 90 pounds each, which
| at an average of 81 per box shows an expendi
| tlre of "a 600, 900 per annum for one article in
| the dried fruit line. The amount referred to
represents say 100000 boxes of Valencia
| 10000 boxes California, 200, 900 boxes Malaga
and 100000 boxes Smyrna The crop of the
| world for the present season is estimated in
| round numbers at 6,500000 boxes, about as
| follows: Valencia, 100000 boxes; Malaga,
| 100000 California, 100000 and Smyrna
| 100000 The shipments of Valencia raisins to
| the United States to date are 100000 boxes.
INSTANTANEOUS PHOTOGRAPHY is no longer a
| question to be determined by study and expert
ment, but has assumed the place of an accom-
plished and familiar fact. One of the most in
| teresting achievements in this direction as de-
scribed in a London paper, originated in the
| question as to whether the upper part of a
| wheel of a vehicle when in motion travels faster
| than the lower part. In determining this mat
| ter by instantaneous photography, the artist
| took the photograph of an omnibus wheel en-
route, and in this photograph, while the lower
| ends of the gpOkpS Immediately adincpnt IN tho